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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2009
Applicants:
Peter E Kirkpatrick, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jean-marc Verdiell, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Marc Epitaux, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Peter E Kirkpatrick, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jean-Marc Verdiell, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Marc Epitaux, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Fusion-IO, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 14/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Leaf switches and spine switches in a Clos network are interconnected by optical fibers. The network enables large numbers of servers or other apparatus to communicate with each other with minimal delay and minimal power consumption.